This course is part of the Interaction Design Specialization

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Interaction Design SpecializationUniversity of California San Diego

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People are social creatures and the modern Internet reflects that. Technology has made collaboration at a distance possible in new ways that present their own set of challenges. This course will introduce you to the major challenges and opportunities for creating online communities. What does the future hold? Learn how social computing can create collaboration experiences that go beyond what’s possible face to face.

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Scott Klemmer

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Cognitive Science & Computer Science

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Connecting People through Technology

When you think of social media, you might think of a popular social network, like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn. These are indeed powerful, but the universe of social media is much larger. Both online and off, most everything we do has a social component that is mediated by some technology. After all, technologies have been helping people communicate since long before your favorite curly-haired CEO dropped out of college. In this module, you’ll learn about different types of social software, how to think about physical collaboration and digital collaboration using the same framework, and what the challenges to success for collaborative software are.

3 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 37 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week2

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Challenges & Opportunities of Collaboration Online

In our always-on, pervasively connected world, it can seem as if space and distance don’t matter anymore. Indeed, more and more organizations are outsourcing work around the globe and/or opening satellite locations. But being instantly reachable from anywhere in the world, isn’t the same as being there. In this module, you’ll learn the ways that distance does and doesn’t matter, how to design for this reality and how to create technologies that go beyond being there.

3 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 39 min), 1 reading, 1 quiz

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Crowdsourcing

It can’t possibly work, can it? Slice up challenging problems into tiny pieces, distribute them to people all over the planet, and then gather their responses to piece together a solution. In this module, you’ll learn both the possibilities and limits of crowdsourcing. You’ll learn strategies for being able to use crowdsourcing successfully, and even hear from the voice of a professional crowdworker about what makes it successful from a worker’s perspective. To gain deeper intuitions, you’ll get to try it out yourself in the assignment.

3 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 50 min), 1 reading, 2 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM SOCIAL COMPUTING

by ZEFeb 14, 2017

This was an excellent primer on how social collaboration and crowdsourcing works. Gave a good understanding of the concepts involved when creating such platforms.

by CDMay 17, 2016

Pretty good course. Although I'm not really sure how necessary it was to have it as part of this specialization.

by JGJan 21, 2019

My least favorite of the group so far as it spends a bit too much time on crowd sourcing and was missing the latest industry powerhouse topics like Slack.

by RMMar 27, 2019

Felt a bit light and not necessary, but it was good info still. Took pleasure in it and actually enjoyed the easy homework.

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